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house
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English h?s (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-Germanic *h?s? (compare Scots hoose, West Frisian hûs, Dutch huis, Low German Huus, German Haus, Danish hus, Norwegian Bokmål hus and Swedish hus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). Compare also Northern Luri ???? (höš, “house, home”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English meson, measoun (“house”), borrowed from Old French maison (“house”). More at hose.
The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simply h?s.)
Alternative forms
- howse (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- enPR: hous, IPA(key): /ha?s/
- (Canada, Virginia) IPA(key): /h??s/
- Rhymes: -a?s
Noun
house (countable and uncountable, plural houses or (dialectal) housen or (chiefly humorous) hice)
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. [from 9th c.]
- The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them, […].
- The people who live in a house; a household. [from 9th c.]
- one that feared God with all his house
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). [from 10th c.]
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. [from 10th c.]
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.[from 10th c.]
- (historical) A workhouse.
- 1834, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from the Commissioners (volume 29, page 169)
- To this the pauper replied that he did not want that, and that rather than be sent to the house he would look out for work.
- 1834, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from the Commissioners (volume 29, page 169)
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. [from 10th c.]
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance. [from 10th c.]
- A theatre.
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. [from 10th c.]
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one. [from 10th c.]
- (figuratively) A place of rest or repose. [from 9th c.]
- 1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour
- Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.
- 1815, Walter Scott, The Lord of the Isles
- Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death […].
- 1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities. [from 19th c.]
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection. [from 10th c.]
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart. [from 14th c.]
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p.313:
- Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p.313:
- (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
- (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. [from 16th c.]
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. [from 19th c.]
- Lotto; bingo. [from 20th c.]
- (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- (sudoku) A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.
Synonyms
- (establishment): shop
- (company or organisation): shop
Hypernyms
- building
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Nigerian Pidgin: haus
- Tok Pisin: haus
- Sranan Tongo: oso
- ? Dutch: osso
Translations
See house/translations § Noun.
Further reading
- house on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- house (astrology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- house (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English housen, from Old English h?sian, from Proto-Germanic *h?s?n? (“to house, live, dwell”), from the noun (see above). Compare Dutch huizen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German Low German husen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German hausen (“to live, dwell, reside”), Norwegian Nynorsk husa (“to house”), Faroese húsa (“to house”), Icelandic húsa (“to shelter, house”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: houz, IPA(key): /ha?z/
- Rhymes: -a?s, -a?z
- Homophone: how's (verb)
Verb
house (third-person singular simple present houses, present participle housing, simple past and past participle housed)
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- Where Saturn houses.
- (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
- (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
- 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments
- Oh! can your counsel his despair defer , Who now is housed in his sepulchre
- 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments
- (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat.
- 2019, Joe Lawson, Shameless (series 10, episode 4, "A Little Gallagher Goes a Long Way")
- All you wanna do is drink a fifth, house a lasagna, and hide in a dumpster until that baby stops crying.
- 2019, Joe Lawson, Shameless (series 10, episode 4, "A Little Gallagher Goes a Long Way")
Synonyms
- (keep within a structure or container): store
- (admit to residence): accommodate, harbor/harbour, host, put up
- (contain or enclose mechanical parts): enclose
Translations
Etymology 3
Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.
Noun
house (uncountable)
- (music) House music.
Translations
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??ou?s?]
Etymology 1
Noun
house n
- gosling
Declension
Etymology 2
Noun
house m anim
- house music, house
Further reading
- house in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- house in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
house m (uncountable)
- house music, house
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h?u?s/, [?h?u?s?]
- Syllabification: hou?se
Noun
house (uncountable)
- (music) house music, house
Declension
French
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /aws/
Noun
house f (uncountable)
- house music, house (genre of music)
Synonyms
- house music
Anagrams
- houes, houés
Hungarian
Etymology
From English house.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?h?uz]
- Hyphenation: house
- Rhymes: -uz
Noun
house (plural house-ok)
- (music) house, house music (type of electronic dance music with an uptempo beat and recurring kickdrum)
Declension
Derived terms
- house-parti
- house-zene
References
Middle English
Noun
house
- Alternative form of hous
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English house, house music
Noun
house m (indeclinable) (uncountable)
- house music, house
Synonyms
- housemusikk
References
- “house” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
house m
- house music, house
Polish
Etymology
From English house music.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xaws/
Noun
house m inan
- house, house music
Declension
Derived terms
- (adjectives) house'owy, housowy
Further reading
- house in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- house in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
From English house music
Noun
house m
- house music, house
- Synonym: música house
Spanish
Etymology
From English house music.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?xaus/, [?xau?s]
Noun
house m (uncountable)
- house music, house
Swedish
Etymology
From English house music
Noun
house c
- house music, house
Declension
Synonyms
- housemusik, house-musik
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birth
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: bûth, IPA(key): /b???/, verb also: IPA(key): /b??ð/
- (US) enPR: bûrth, IPA(key): /b??/, verb also: IPA(key): /b?ð/
- Rhymes: -??(?)?
- Homophone: berth
Etymology 1
From Middle English birthe (1250), from earlier burthe, burde, from Old Norse burðr, byrd (Old Swedish byrth, Swedish börd), replacing Old English ?ebyrd (rare variant byrþ), equivalent to bear +? -th (compare also berth). The Old Norse is from Proto-Germanic *burdiz (compare Old Frisian berde, berd); Old English ?ebyrd is from prefixed *gaburþiz (compare Dutch geboorte, German Geburt), from Proto-Indo-European *b?r?tis (compare Latin fors (“luck”), Old Irish brith), from *b?er- (“to carry, bear”). More at bear.
Noun
birth (countable and uncountable, plural births)
- (uncountable) The process of childbearing; the beginning of life.
- (countable) An instance of childbirth.
- (countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.
- (uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
- That which is born.
- Misspelling of berth.
Antonyms
- (beginning of life): death
Translations
Adjective
birth (not comparable)
- A familial relationship established by childbirth.
- Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.
Synonyms
- biological, blood, consanguineous
Etymology 2
From Middle English birthen, birðen, from the noun (see above).
Verb
birth (third-person singular simple present births, present participle birthing, simple past and past participle birthed)
- (dated or regional) To bear or give birth to (a child).
- (figuratively) To produce, give rise to.
Usage notes
- The term give birth (to) is much more common, especially in literal use.
Related terms
- bear
- born
Translations
Derived terms
References
Albanian
Etymology 1
From birë (“hole”).
Noun
birth m (indefinite plural birthe, definite singular birthi, definite plural birthat)
- pimple, blemish
Related terms
- birë
Etymology 2
Diminutive -th lengthening of bir (“son”).
Noun
birth m (indefinite plural birthe, definite singular birthi, definite plural birthat)
- son, little boy
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